Lattrex Inc. — Asynchronous Signal Processors

// Technology

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Clockless

No global clock. No clock distribution network. No clock skew. Each cell operates asynchronously, processing data the instant it arrives. The result: zero idle power, deterministic latency, and inherent resistance to timing-based side-channel attacks.

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Massively Parallel

Thousands of identical compute cells, each with its own memory, instruction set, and four-way communication with neighbors. No shared bus. No bottleneck. Every cell runs its own program independently.

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Signal Processing

Purpose-built for real-time DSP. Hardware multiply-accumulate. Q15 fixed-point arithmetic. Run dozens of parallel receiver chains—demodulators, filters, mixers, decoders—simultaneously on a single chip.

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Software-Defined

Every cell is programmable. Reconfigure the entire array in microseconds. Integrated with GNURadio for real-world SDR applications. Python SDK and open-source toolchain.

The Gap We Fill

	RTL-SDR Dongle	Lattrex	FPGA
Cost	$30	$349 dev kit	$500–$15,000
Parallel Channels	1	16+	Many
Power	<1W	<250mW	15–75W
Reconfiguration	N/A	Microseconds	Milliseconds
Real-Time DSP	No	Yes	Yes
Programming	Software only	Assembly + Python SDK	HDL (VHDL/Verilog)

// Applications

Amateur Radio

Monitor an entire HF band simultaneously. Decode multiple digital modes in parallel. Real-time signal classification and automatic demodulation.

Defense & Intelligence

Low-SWaP spectrum awareness. Cognitive electronic warfare. Tactical communications processing in a man-portable package.

Commercial SDR

Multi-channel base station processing. IoT sensor networks. Automotive radar. 5G MIMO front-end processing.

// About

Lattrex Inc. designs asynchronous parallel processors for real-time signal processing. Our architecture is inspired by biological networks—distributed processing without central control, where data flows like nutrients through interconnected cells.

Our first chip tapes out on the SkyWater 130nm process in 2026 using a fully open-source design flow. The architecture is process-portable and scales to advanced nodes where tens of thousands of cells enable full-spectrum signal processing.

Lattrex is a Delaware C-corporation based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We are registered in SAM.gov and eligible for SBIR/STTR and other federal R&D funding programs.

Leadership

Charles W. McClish III

Founder & CEO

Designed the cell architecture, instruction set, and RTL. Built the cycle-accurate simulator, Python SDK, and GNURadio integration. Took the design from concept through the SKY130 PDK flow.

// The Symbol

Six characters. One square. The complete architecture of a processor.

It started with a thought experiment: what is the simplest possible processor that can communicate with its neighbors? The answer was the flip-jump processor—a single-instruction machine that flips a bit and jumps to an address. The \ is flip. The ‾ is jump.

But simplicity alone isn't enough. The right balance came from adding just what was necessary. The = represents memory operations and comparisons. The \ becomes transformation. The + is arithmetic. The .* represents on-board memory—the cell stores its own program and data, executing any combination of instructions until it finally JUMPs to a neighbor.

The square represents the cell itself: self-contained, four faces, four neighbors. Everything the cell does and everything it is can be described with this diagram.

But there is more than meets the eye.

The five left-side characters form a face looking right—. is the ear, * the eye, \ the nose, = the mouth. The cell is awake. Active. Looking forward.

Now look at the right-side characters, ignoring the .*—another face, but with its eye closed. The cell at rest. This is the asynchronous nature made visible: fully active or fully off, instantly. No idle state. No wasted energy.

Simple units. Complex emergence. Like fungal networks or ant colonies—individual cells following simple rules, together producing behavior far greater than the sum of their parts.

Nothing more than necessary. Nothing less than sufficient.

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